6/22/2023 0 Comments Dc comics new frontier![]() ![]() ![]() With darkness gathering on the horizon once more, only a bold new generation of adventurers - young, daring, and dedicated to the better angels of our nature - is equal to the challenge of the New Frontier.From Eisner Award-winning writer-artist Darwyn Cooke and Eisner Award-winning colorist Dave Stewart comes DC: The New Frontier- a timeless tale of idealism that has become one of the most acclaimed superhero comics of the 21st century. ![]() And those icons who do still fight on - Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman - operate under hidden agendas and dueling ideologies.Yet this America needs its heroes more than ever. The soldiers and spies who conducted top-secret missions into the unknown now work in the shadows. The masked mystery men who fought for freedom in the Second World War have been outlawed. (W) Cooke, Darwyn (A) Cooke, Darwyn (CA) Cooke, Darwyn ![]()
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6/21/2023 0 Comments Moon called series order![]() ![]() There’s also paranormal romance going on, but I didn’t feel especially drawn to any of Mercy’s suitors. When she tries her best to help out a young werewolf in need, the universe quickly sends Mercy a reminder of the age old saying “no good deed ever goes unpunished.” Things escalate pretty quickly after that with attempted/successful murders, kidnapping, werewolf politics, etc. ![]() Mercy is just going about her business, living her everyday life when things suddenly get completely turned upside down. Better to ease the general public into things than cause a widespread panic, right? (Mostly with the lighter fluffy sort of fae and not the monstrous I’m-gonna-eat-your-face kind of creatures, of course.) Baby steps, people. There are supernatural creatures galore in this series, and some of them are even known about by humans thanks to their powers that be deciding to come public. ![]() Luckily for her, her transformation is nowhere near as painful and brutal as that of the werewolves who also inhabit her everyday world. Mercedes Thompson, better known to her friends as Mercy, is a mechanic by day and a shapeshifting “Walker” by night, able to take on the form of a coyote at will. This series came highly recommended by Cupcakes and Machetes, so I was excited to give it a whirl. In my recent frenzy of reading Urban Fantasy, I finally got around to reading Moon Called, the first novel in the series of Mercy Thompson books. ![]() 6/21/2023 0 Comments The midwich cuckoos original![]() ![]() Peel explains, “Creating the score was a constantĮndeavour to find the balance between darkness and With an increasingly dark electronic ‘invasion’. Organic instrumentations and melodies, juxtaposed ![]() Peel creates a score that perfectly balances the ![]() The ‘Hive Mind’, tape manipulations, drones, woodwindĪnd melodies echoing the song of the cuckoo bird, With analogue synthesisers recreating the horror of With the sound design of Sky’s adaptation. Intricately produced soundscape, working in harmony Hannah Peel‘s score is described as a unique and The Midwich Cuckoos is based on the 1957 scienceįiction novel by John Wyndham, and tells the story ofĪn English village where the women become Now available on LP after being released digitally last The Midwich Cuckoos - Original Score By Hannah Peel All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day. ![]() 6/21/2023 0 Comments Dreadnought book 3![]() You root for her from the very beginning and each move she made not once felt out of character. ![]() We see her struggles, her hopes and fears. Daniels has done a great job with Danny’s story. It’s fun, fast-paced, and certainly action-packed all the way through. I’m a sucker for superhero stories and Dreadnought is such a fantastic and adventurous story. While trying to juggle her new life, she’s also trying to find the old Dreadnought’s murderer, who is still threatening the streets of New Port City. Dreadnought is her origin story which follows her first few weeks of superhero living. ![]() To Danny, she now looks like the girl she knows she is even if everyone around her says otherwise. The side effects of this transform Danny’s body into what she thought it should be. In a world where superheroes and villains are a regular occurrence, Danny finds herself being the passed the power of Dreadnought when he falls out of the sky and dies right in front of her. This in no way affected my opinion of the book. Rating: ★★★★☆ * I received an ARC of this book from the publisher through NetGalley. ![]() 6/21/2023 0 Comments Riley thorn and the dead![]() ![]() ![]() He eventually hit rock bottom and was forced to move to Rome for six months to make Spaghetti Westerns and spy movies - which, as Cliff pointed out, was not the “fate worse than death” that he seemed to think it was. He spent most of his time with his best friend and longtime stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), who loyally stuck by his side even after the stunt opportunities dried up. “Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood” covered a transitional period in Dalton’s career, when he was no longer a viable movie star in America and had been reduced to doing regular TV guest spots as a “heavy” that the heroic main characters could defeat. RIP Rick Dalton 1933-2023 /j51sNEh7AP- The Video Archives Podcast May 19, 2023 ![]() Rick passed away peacefully in his home in Hawaii and is survived by his wife Francesca. We are saddened by the news of the passing of actor Rick Dalton, best known for his roles in the hit TV series Bounty Law and The Fireman trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Related Posts: Lean Mean Thirteen (Stephanie Plum #13), Plum Lucky (Stephanie Plum #13.5), Fearless Fourteen (Stephanie Plum #14),, Finger Lickin' Fifteen (Stephanie Plum #15), Mini-Reviews: The Audition, Plum Spooky | DNF Report: Tether, Plum Spooky (Stephanie Plum #14.5), Mini-Reviews: Sizzling Sixteen (Stephanie Plum #16) & Smokin' Seventeen (Stephanie Plum #17), Sizzling Sixteen (Stephanie Plum #16), Smokin' Seventeen (Stephanie Plum #17), Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum #18), Sizzling Sixteen (Stephanie Plum #16), Mini-Reviews: Notorious Nineteen (Stephanie Plum #19), Takedown Twenty (Stephanie Plum #20), Top Secret Twenty-One (Stephanie Plum #21), Notorious Nineteen (Stephanie Plum #19), Takedown Twenty (Stephanie Plum #20), Top-Secret Twenty-One (Stephanie Plum #21),, Tricky Twenty-Two (Stephanie Plum #22), Curious Minds (Knight & Moon #1), Turbo Twenty-Three (Stephanie Plum #23), Sizzling Sixteen (Stephanie Plum #16), Dangerous Minds (Knight & Moon #2), Wicked Appetite (Lizzy & Diesel #1), Hardcore Twenty-Four (Stephanie Plum #24), The Heist (Fox & O'Hare #1), Twisted Twenty-Six (Stephanie Plum #26) ![]() Genres: Adult, Mystery/Thriller, Cozy Mysteryįind it on the web: Buy from Amazon // Goodreads Source: Received from the publisher for review purposes Title: Look Alive Twenty-Five (Stephanie Plum #25) ![]() 6/20/2023 0 Comments The shadow wand![]() Wandfasted (The Black Witch Chronicles #0.5) Forest seems to like leaving us on cliffhangers. I can’t say it was unpredictable, but I was definitely left wanting more. I was completely hooked with the not-quite love triangle. Elloren needed to learn that she is strong and that she can survive on her own. I loved the training sequence because it focused both on physical skills and mental skills. Not only has Elloren’s magic finally started to show itself but we also get a training montage. ![]() On the run and seeking protection from the person she’s sworn to never forgive, her fastmate Lukas. This makes her terrifying to her supposed allies and a potential weapon for her enemies to control and wield. At the end of book two Elloren and her friends scattered as they all firmly joined the resistance in their own ways.Įlloren’s power makes her the Black Witch of prophecy. I almost don’t know how to review without spoilers, but let's say things heat up quickly. ![]() Published: June 9th 2020 by Inkyard Press ![]() 6/20/2023 0 Comments Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds![]() Now that´s a completely different Reynolds novel than one is used to, no extremely far future with unbelievable highly developed tech, but instead with 2 relatively close futures, or even presents, or pasts, clashing together in a classical thriller crime style plot that is suspenseful until the end. ![]() If one can´t avoid the nanocaust, try at least fixing the problem with the help of time travel. ![]() We live surrounded by hills, woods and wildlife, and not too much excitement. I met my wife in the Netherlands through a mutual interest in climbing and we married back in Wales. In my spare time I am a very keen runner, and I also enjoying hill-walking, birdwatching, horse-riding, guitar and model-making. I moved to the Netherlands to continue my science career and stayed there for a very long time, before eventually returning to Wales. I was born in Wales, but raised in Cornwall, and then spent time in the north of England and Scotland. Some of my books and stories are set in a consistent future named after Revelation Space, the first novel, but I've done a lot of other things as well and I like to keep things fresh between books. I write about a novel a year and try to write a few short stories as well. I started off publishing short stories in the British SF magazine Interzone in the early 90s, then eventually branched into novels. ![]() ![]() I'm Al, I used to be a space scientist, and now I'm a writer, although for a time the two careers ran in parallel. ![]() 6/20/2023 0 Comments Truman david mccullough review![]() ![]() The last president to serve as a living link between the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries, Truman's story spans the raw world of the Missouri frontier, World War I, the powerful Pendergast machine of Kansas City, the legendary Whistle-Stop Campaign of 1948, and the decisions to drop the atomic bomb, confront Stalin at Potsdam, send troops to Korea, and fire General MacArthur. In this riveting biography, acclaimed historian David McCullough not only captures the man-a more complex, informed, and determined man than ever before imagined-but also the turbulent times in which he rose, boldly, to meet unprecedented challenges. Truman is one of the greatest of American stories, filled with vivid characters-Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Wallace Truman, George Marshall, Joe McCarthy, and Dean Acheson-and dramatic events. Truman, whose presidency included momentous events from the atomic bombing of Japan to the outbreak of the Cold War and the Korean War, told by America's beloved and distinguished historian. ![]() The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Harry S. ![]() |